Housing Space Research Articles

Fortified horizontal residential enclaves and the new urban segregation in cities in the interior of the state of São Paulo

The brazilian urbanization was marked by the center-periphery cleavage; however, changed from end the 20th century XX due to the spread of gated communities. These are closed spaces for housing, work, leisure, consumption and business, which are characterized by a defensive architecture, are walled and turned inwards, with sophisticated security systems that separate two social universes: the internal, restricted to the richest, and the external, associated with the violence and the poor population. This paper analyzes the gated communities in countryside cities of São Paulo, addressing the reasons that led to their diffusion – from the effects of the fear narrative to the dynamics of the real estate market – and their harmful urban and social consequences. The gated communities contradict the ideals of modern urban life, marked by diversity, anonymous encounters and the appreciation of public space as a sphere of exercise of citizenship rights. The analysis demonstrates that in the selected cities (Ribeirão Preto, Jundiaí and Bauru) the spread of closed urbanizations for residential use increased socio-spatial segregation, delimiting fragmented territories that obstruct free movement and increase social inequalities, in open contradiction with the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda (New Urban Agenda) of the United Nations (UN).

REKABENTUK KEMUDAHALIHAN SEBAGAI STRATEGI REKA BENTUK DAN PERANCANGAN RUANG DALAMAN KEDIAMAN MELAYU BERBILANG TINGKAT

The home should support life activities, normal daily functioning systems and family individuals by providing some degree of control over the physical environment, encouraging social, religious and environmental interaction. Housing design is now heavily influenced by other cultures and does not reflect the lifestyle of the community, especially the Malays. Many previous researchers are aware that multi-storey house architecture is not suitable for Malay culture. Housing recovery is often seen as a reflection of a person's personality, interests, lifestyle, values, and social standing. Studies have shown that traditional Malay house design (RTM) has design principles that solve many problems related to the environment, social and religious nature. Making it a superior design, evergreen with a superior Malay house design style should be used as a guide in the interior design of multi-storey housing. This study examines the concept of RTM, identifying mobile (flexible), open space design planning with the characteristics of various RTM through environmental, social and Islamic perspectives. The results reveal an understanding of the value and design requirements that will influence the interior space planning of Malays living in multi-storey housing and further suggest a framework of thought and design criteria for multi-storey housing space.

Ciudades resilientes y la disputa discursiva de la agenda de reducción de riesgos y desastres

Resilience is a concept used to reflect on how to deal with the dynamics that arise after disturbances caused by a natural hazard. It emerges as a key concept for thinking about forms of recovery and reconstruction that seek not only to return to pre-disaster normality, but to question and overcome the vulnerability. Based on the Pecheutian discourse analysis method, the concept of resilient cities is problematized, mobilized as a sign of fictitious capital in the era of financialization of housing and urban space, transforming environmental disasters and the climate crisis into yet another business model. Rescuing the meaning of socio-ecological resilience and articulating it to the theories of socio-spatial practices of resistance and common spaces, it becomes possible to think of resilience to disasters not as a neoliberal category, but as a social, political, and collective practice of adaptation and mitigation to climatic changes.

Fictive home: the politics of urban homemaking of <em>Hijras</em> in Khulna, Bangladesh

The third gender is an identity-based category for people who do not identify themselves as either male or female. This may include people who do not feel the male or female gender roles that their culture dictates in terms of social, sexual, or gender role preference. The aim of the paper is to investigate the crucial role that the dwelling environments play in the lives of the third gender and their ultimate transformation into and stigmatization as a Hijra. In a context characterized by a lack of social acceptance of the third gender people into mainstream activities, and in the near absence of Government (and NGO) support, particularly toward their rehabilitation and resettlement, the third gender population commonly engages in ‘anti-social’ activities in order to ensure a livelihood. A significant portion of these activities, which can also be viewed as different forms of resistance-mostly absent and ritualistic, however, take place within the confines of their urban dwelling. An investigation into their family structure and household spatial implication, organization of house spaces according to their own notion of publicness-privateness, spatial sequencing, layering and hierarchy, formal articulation of houses and their setting/location to the larger urban fabric hence speak of an apparently novel culture of an undesirable community, where such novelties, as this paper argues, degrade their identity into that of a ‘socially excluded’ Hijra. Such identification and understanding of the negative socio-political-spatial products/processes of Hijra homes hence are expected to provide important feedback to policymaking on devising sustainable ways to construct a positive identity for the so-called ‘Hijra’ population and aid through possible spatial-physical intervention (e.g. housing).

Changing the Space in the Traditional Kerinci Traditional House

This study aims to analyze changes in space in traditional Kerinci traditional houses. Research is research. In this case, the method used is a rationalistic method where this method seeks to explain the actual situation in the field and then tested with existing theories. The method chosen must be appropriate to achieve the research objectives, this chapter also examines in more detail about the research carried out such as research materials, research tools, the course of research, and difficulties encountered during research. The results of research findings that have been carried out on changes in the space in umah lahiek in Mukai Mukai Mudik Village, we can conclude that the changes that occur in the inner space are the addition of sleeping space both in the outer room (umah lua) and in the inner room (umah inside). The addition of this sleeping space has no effect on the shape of the outer floor plan of the umah lahiek unit, but only changes in the pattern of the inner room.

The impact of transformations of the space of tenement houses on the architectural form of the building

The study examined transformations of tenement houses carried out by development companies conducting their investments in the city of Warsaw. The tenement houses that were originally erected in the second half of the 19th century or at the beginning of the 20th century and were renovated in the last 20 years, i.e. since 2003, were examined.
 The results of the study showed the existence of four main types of transformations that affect the architectural form of buildings: changing the function of the ground floor from residential to commercial, adaptation/reconstruction of attics for residential purposes, superstructures and transformations of courtyards. The impact of individual transformations on the architectural form of space is described. These changes have been illustrated with examples of Warsaw projects.

Green Space and Apartment Prices: Exploring the Effects of the Green Space Ratio and Visual Greenery

Urban green spaces provide various social, economic, health, aesthetic, environmental, and ecological benefits. This study aimed to investigate the influence of green spaces on apartment prices, with a particular emphasis on visual greenery and the proportion of green spaces. Hedonic pricing models have often been used to assess the impact of green spaces on housing prices. Herein, 16 variables were considered as factors affecting housing prices and divided into housing, neighborhood, and green space characteristics. The findings indicate that the presence of green spaces enhanced the value of apartment complexes. Moreover, both visual greenery and the proportion of green spaces within apartment complexes influenced housing prices. Additional analysis demonstrated the impact of green space characteristics within Seoul apartment complexes on housing price changes from 2016 to 2022, finding that higher green space proportions and visual greenery led to approximately 20% higher price increases, and structural equation modeling revealed that the proportion of green spaces within apartment complexes, directly and indirectly, influenced housing prices through visual greenery. Overall, this study emphasized the importance of ensuring well-managed green spaces within and around apartment complexes.

An analysis of space efficiency in Asian supertall towers

PurposeSupertall towers (300 m+) offer a viable solution to the increasing demand for housing and commercial space caused by rapid urban growth, migration from rural to urban areas and economic expansion in Asia. In this particular context, the efficient utilization of space becomes a crucial factor in the design process for Asian skyscrapers as they seek to address the changing socioeconomic landscape. This study will provide valuable guidance, especially to architectural and structural designers in the pursuit of sustainable development for Asian skyscrapers by analyzing space efficiency.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology employed in this paper involved a case study approach to gather data on 75 Asian supertall towers in order to examine space efficiency.FindingsFindings of the research can be summarized as follows: (1) the average space efficiency of these towers was 67.5%, ranging from a minimum of 55% to a maximum of 82%; (2) the average proportion of the core area to the gross floor area (GFA) was 29.5%, with values ranging from 14% to 38%; (3) the majority of Asian skyscrapers exhibited a tapered form and adopted a central core typology, which catered to mixed-use and office purposes; (4) the most frequently utilized structural system was a combination of composite and outriggered frames; (5) space efficiency tended to decrease as the height of the tower increased; and (6) there was no noteworthy difference in the impact of various load-bearing systems and building forms on space efficiency.Originality/valueThere is a noticeable lack of extensive research into space efficiency in supertall towers in Asia, which serves as a hub for skyscrapers. This study seeks to fill this substantial gap in the current scientific literature.

A Conjunctural Mapping of People’s Park

Following calls to spatialize conjunctures, this article proposes and practices conjunctural mapping through a case study of the ongoing struggle at People’s Park in Berkeley, California. Although the method of conjunctural analysis enables and requires an investigation into the multiple forces at work in the production of hegemony, such analyses tend to focus on cultural, economic, political, and social (or horizontal) dimensions of winning or contesting consent, without necessarily locating the formations of these expressions at different (vertical) scales. What is the role of the geographical in producing and countering hegemony, and how do we consider questions of scale in a conjunctural analysis? We offer an example through a conjunctural mapping of People’s Park, where the University of California, Berkeley, and park defenders address pressures and seize opportunities at the scales of the subject, city, and state to respectively redevelop or protect the park. Mapping their multiple geographies reveals how the neoliberal crisis (in higher education, affordable housing, and public space) takes place and requires work at each scale in the struggle for hegemonic settlement. Spiraling outward and upward, cases like People’s Park show that conjunctures are best analyzed through consideration of local complexities and scale articulations.

Scale Model Studies of Different Ventilation Strategies for Tropical Public Housing in Surabaya

The present study explores applying different ventilation strategies for public housing in Surabaya through a scale physical model. Previous studies indicate that natural ventilation alone is insufficient for alleviating discomfort in warm-humid climates. Many studies have been carried out concerning this topic but rarely evaluated performance comparison among different strategies in the low-to-middle residential unit. The present study aimed to analyze the influence of varying ventilation strategies on the thermal condition of the internal space of public housing in Surabaya. Three strategies, i.e., naturally induced ventilation, fan-induced ventilation, and direct evaporative cooling, were included in the study. Thermal condition in the models was then recorded and analyzed. The study shows that fan-induced ventilation and direct evaporative cooling can reduce indoor air temperature. Regarding the detrimental impact of humidity on comfort, natural and fan-induced ventilation will be sufficient to promote a tolerable indoor environment.

Reduction of wing area affects estimated stress in the primary flight muscles of chickens.

In flying birds, the pectoralis (PECT) and supracoracoideus (SUPRA) generate most of the power required for flight, while the wing feathers create the aerodynamic forces. However, in domestic laying hens, little is known about the architectural properties of these muscles and the forces the wings produce. As housing space increases for commercial laying hens, understanding these properties is important for assuring safe locomotion. We tested the effects of wing area loss on mass, physiological cross-sectional area (PCSA), and estimated muscle stress (EMS) of the PECT and SUPRA in white-feathered laying hens. Treatments included Unclipped (N = 18), Half-Clipped with primaries removed (N = 18) and Fully-Clipped with the primaries and secondaries removed (N = 18). The mass and PCSA of the PECT and SUPRA did not vary significantly with treatment. Thus, laying hen muscle anatomy may be relatively resistant to changes in external wing morphology. We observed significant differences in EMS among treatments, as Unclipped birds exhibited the greatest EMS. This suggests that intact wings provide the greatest stimulus of external force for the primary flight muscles.

Erken Cumhuriyet Dönemi dergilerinde kadın imajı ve modern konut ilişkisi üzerine bir inceleme

The Early Republican Period was a transition from traditional culture and life to modern life. This process of change and transformation, experienced in almost every aspect of life at the beginning of the twentieth century, also manifested itself in social life, urban space, and the field of architecture. In particular, the empowering role of woman as individual and its effects on social relations significantly affected daily life and, thus, the most basic living unit, housing space. During this period, the new concept of housing, associated with the image of modern, educated, and social woman, was also widely featured in the print media, which considered it its duty to teach modern life to society. When the culture, art, and life-themed magazines of the period are analysed, it is seen that there were many contents in which modern housing design, interior arrangement, and furniture choices were associated with the theme of modern woman. This draws attention to the fact that the house was considered a reflection of the new living culture rather than a place of shelter, and the woman was regarded as the representation of this culture. In this context, this study aims to investigate the relationship between the concept of modern housing and the image of woman in the Early Republic through the magazine contents of the period. In the study, Muhit, Ev Kadın, Ev İş, Yıldız, and Yedigün magazines, which were popular publications of the period, were examined. As a result of the study, it was determined that the woman was generally accepted as the primary user and decision-maker of the house in the contents. Furthermore, it has been observed that the details, spatial suggestions, and furniture preferences of the new housing design were expressed through modern women-themed images and discourses.

Capital crisis and production of social interest housing: an analysis of Residencial Nova Caiçara in Sobral-CE/Brazil

The 2008 financial collapse was felt around the world, and in Brazil, the measures adopted to mitigate its effects focused on state incentives in various sectors of the economy, particularly in the construction of Social Interest Housing (HIS). This article analyzes the production of housing space in the city of Sobral, located in the State of Ceará, and its connections with the social totality, that is, critical valorization. The investigation was based on bibliographical research, interviews and mapping. The results reveal that the crisis activated mechanisms already used by capital to face its challenges, but, with regard to new living spaces, it exacerbated the urban problem.

The Transformative Potential of Everyday Life: Shared Space, Togetherness, and Everyday Degrowth in Housing

ABSTRACT This paper proposes that everyday life in housing contains the possibility to shape and transform its material, cultural, and social conditions. Mobilizing a materialist ontology and insights from human geography, we examine how shared spaces manifest practices of togetherness which prefigure the enactment of socioecological degrowth. We draw on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate in Manchester (UK) to identify practices that characterize everyday housing geographies, including reappropriation, commoning, accepting limits, and territorializing tendencies. These constitute a therapeutic assemblage, facilitating wellbeing while simultaneously enfolded with(in) the political possibilities being realized on the estate to form a contingent, yet durable, instantiation of everyday degrowth. We thus contribute to revealing how transformative degrowth politics are sustained in everyday housing contexts.

Peningkatan Perekonomian Keluarga Urban Melalui Budidaya Sayur Hidroponik

Meruya Selatan Subdistrict, West Jakarta is a densely populated area with very few green open spaces in every resident's house so that greening the community is not a priority. With the city of Jakarta being densely populated and the air being polluted, greening is really needed.The hydroponic farming method is an alternative for reforestation on limited land. The hydroponic farming method also makes a big contribution in improving people's lives and the economy. Transfer of knowledge through socialization activities of the hydroponic method as an agricultural method that is suitable for application on limited land. Transfer of knowledge through practical planting activities using the hydroponic method. The output of this activity includes increasing understanding and skills in hydroponic methods, packaging hydroponic products, marketing hydroponic products digitally, calculating the cost of production and determining the selling price of hydroponic products. This activity also provides large, medium, small and simple hydroponic equipment for the community to use

Home swapping as instrument for more housing sufficiency!

The current ecological challenges with an urgent necessity to reduce consumption of energy and resources call for a reconsideration of many aspects of current (western) lifestyles. Since housing is one major source of energy and resource consumption, the development of a sustainable housing provision is of upmost importance. Unfortunately, the public debate is constricted to efficiency and consistency measures, based on technical improvements, which do not question norms and values leading to necessary lifestyle changes. Such a one-sided approach will fall short for various reasons – the most important being the ever-increasing per capita housing space that cancels out efficiency gains. Instead, discussions on an environmentally sound housing provision should consider the concept of sufficiency, leading to a reduction of the physical building stock due to a decrease in per capita consumption. Despite acknowledging the necessity of a reduced per capita living space, the academic debate remains quite limited without offering appropriate systematic strategies. Thus, this paper takes up the instrument of home swapping to discuss its holistic value, adding to the debate on sufficiency strategies in the field of housing. It is shown that home swapping has enormous potential to reduce per capita housing space by better allocating living space.

Reassembling tourism labour and housing precarity: Barcelona during COVID-19

The COVID-19 crisis severely disrupted the lives of hospitality and tourism workers worldwide. In Southern European cities, overly dependent on the visitor economy, a substantial part of the workforce plunged into uncertainty, adding to the rising challenge of housing affordability resulting from a rapid financialisation of real estate assets over the last decade. This paper examines how interactive service workers have coped with, resisted and negotiated such augmented and double-edged precarity during the COVID-19 crisis in Barcelona. From an intersectional perspective, the study deploys an assemblage-based analysis to trace the variety of ways through which capacities for sustaining labour and securing homes emerged during the pandemic. We foreground a topology of adaptation practices and different trajectories nested to critical events to reveal the many forms in which social precarity is produced and embodied in labour and housing spaces. The research findings suggest that pre-pandemic labour and housing conditions were linked to the awkward welfare arrangements and the forms of social protection during COVID-19, which in most cases created new conditions for precarity and hopelessness. Different contingencies were coped at the margin of institutional support, nuancing emerging geographies of precarity and (re)produced through residential deprivation and embracing informality. The desire to work in the tourism and cultural sectors while imagining where and how to dwell surfaced as a controversial negotiation that affected workers unequally and foregrounded the possibility spaces of the precarious geography of tourism.

도시 구성요소 연구

Asan has grown rapidly as its economic foundation has been established and developed, including natural resources, agricultural expansion, transportation revolution, and industrial development. The dynamics and vitality of a city depend on the elements that make up the city. The preservation and securing of traditional and cultural spaces can maximize the historical and cultural values of the city to establish urban identity, and the creation of road networks and green environments improves the convenience of life and the comfort of the city. The city's creativity and living benefits are irrelevant to housing and intellectual space, and the urban narrative, which has a hidden string of embrace, makes it an attractive city to live in. This study tried to emphasize that in order to understand Asan, which dreams of becoming a world-class city, it is necessary to listen to several changing narratives according to the times. The story of understanding specialized traditional resources and ups and downs as a hot spring tourist destination, changes in cities brought about by global companies such as Hyundai and Samsung, the opening of railways and subways, and the impact of the era of local autonomy were reviewed.

Indoor environmental quality and energy use intensity: an empirical post-occupancy evaluation test of on-campus university student housing in Ghana

PurposeTo significantly adopt and improve indoor energy efficiency in building infrastructure in developing countries can be a challenging venture. Thus, this study aimed to assess the satisfaction of indoor environmental quality and its effect on energy use intensity and efficient among student housing.Design/methodology/approachThe study is quantitative and hinged on the contrast theory. A survey of 1,078 student residents living in purpose-built student housing was contacted. Using Post-Occupancy Evaluation and Multiple Linear Regression, critical variables such as thermal comfort, visual comfort and indoor air quality and 21 indicators were assessed. Data on annual energy consumption and total square metre of the indoor area were utilised to assess energy use intensity.FindingsThe study found a direct relationship between satisfaction with indoor environmental quality and energy use intensity. The study showed that students were more satisfied with thermal comfort conditions than visual and indoor air quality. Overall, these indicators contributed to 75.9% kWh/m2 minimum and 43.2% kWh/m2 maximum energy use intensity in student housing in Ghana. High occupancy and small useable space in student housing resulted in high energy use intensity.Practical implicationsInclusions of sustainable designs and installation of smart mechanical systems are feedback to student housing designers. Again, adaptation to retrofitting ideas can facilitate energy efficiency in the current state of student housing in Ghana.Originality/valueEarlier studies have argued for and against the satisfaction of indoor environmental quality in student housing. However, these studies have neglected to examine the impact on energy use intensity. This is novel because the assessment of energy use intensity in this study has a positive influence on active design incorporation among student housing.

Enlarged housing space and increased spatial complexity enhance hippocampal neurogenesis but do not increase physical activity in mice.

Environmental enrichment (EE) improves various health outcomes, such as hippocampal neurogenesis, in rodents, which is thought to be caused, in part, by increased physical activity. However, the specific effect of each enrichment component, such as enlarged housing spaces and increased spatial complexity with a variety of objects, on physical activity remains unclear because of methodological limitations in measuring physical activity. We aimed to examine whether enlarged housing spaces and increased spatial complexity increase physical activity in mice using a body-implantable actimeter. Adult male C57BL/6J mice were assigned to either standard housing or EE groups. The housing environment in the EE mice was gradually enriched by enlarging the housing space and the placement of a variety of objects. Physical activity was measured using a body-implanted actimeter. Hippocampal neurogenesis was immunohistochemically examined. Enlarged housing spaces and the placement of a variety of objects did not increase physical activity in mice. In contrast, hippocampal neurogenesis was enhanced in the EE mice, suggesting that environmental interventions successfully provided enriched housing conditions for these mice. These results indicate that enlarged housing spaces and increased spatial complexity do not increase physical activity in mice. Furthermore, we found that EE enhanced hippocampal neurogenesis without increasing activity volume. Besides the current understanding that increasing the amount of physical activity is key to improving hippocampal function, our result suggests that the environment in which physical activity takes place is also a crucial contextual factor in determining the impact of physical activity on hippocampal function.